The Defense Annotations by Tadashi Wakashima; Headnote by Zoran Kuzmanovich

The GiftAnnotations by Yuri Leving. This website is designed to provide the reader of Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift with a quick and convenient reference regarding various aspects of the narrative. Concordance, visual commentary, electronic appendices and indexes (Dramatis personae, Flora and fauna, Color distribution, and Toponymy) serve as a supplement to the printed edition: Yuri Leving. Keys to The Gift. A Guide to V. Nabokov’s Novel (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011).

Substantial French-language annotations of Nabokov's works can be found in Pléiade's Œuvres romanesques complètes, a three-volume edition published under the general editorship of Maurice Couturier. Volume I appeared in 1999. Volume II appeared in 2010. The third and final volume is scheduled to appear in 2021. For contents of the three volumes, see below.